South Korea Is Getting Very Good At Taking Down Powerful Douchebags
a new word for the extreme and horrifyingly common abuses the country’s elites have long hurdled at the people who work for them: “gapjil.” The word is a combination of “gap,” meaning people with power, and “eul,” meaning abuse. An institutionally stratified nation, South Korea has one of the longest workweeks of nations in power and sorts its people into classes.
Examples of “gapjil” include: The 10-year-old heiress threatening to fire her chauffeur for being “spoiled.” A boss making a corporate employee pick up their dog’s shit. The daughter of a former Korean Air chairman forcing a passenger jet to return to its gate at JFK because she “didn’t like the way the macadamia nuts were served to her in first class.” The billionaire son of Apartheid-related emerald mine ownersa flight attendant on his private jet, only to bribe her to stay silent. Oh, wait.
South Korean citizens have been set ablaze by the idea of attacking and abolishing gapjil offenders, sending their billionaire overlords running for the woods with tinkle puddles trailing behind them. In the samereport, they note how there are now websites, banners, bathroom stickers, government agencies, and even police departments offering “gapjil hotlines” in hopes of inspiring uprisings among the underpaid, overworked, and regularly abused lower and middle classes.
“I hated it when they seemed to have nothing to do other than going around the office commenting on female workers’ clothes, saying that we could not get married because of the way we dressed,” one woman told
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